Not So Different/Music

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Examples of Not So Different in Music include:

  • The Sonata Arctica song Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited has the line "You aim for a common goal, you are one with your foe" repeated frequently as part of the chorus.
  • "Becoming The Bull" by Atreyu Back and forth the struggle consumes us all. / Trying to keep a level head. / In the most unsettling of times. / Today I'll become the bull. / There is so much to stake. / I stumble I lose my place. / Pride and arrogance surrounded by sin. / Destiny takes its hold. / Fight it or let it go. / But I choose how the day will end.
  • "Figure 0.9" by Linkin Park I took what I hated / and made it a part of me / now you've become a part of me / you'll always be right here / you've become a part of me / you'll always be my fear / I can't separate / myself from what I've done / giving up a part of me / I let myself become you
  • "Outside" by Staind I can see through you / see your True Colors / because inside your ugly / your ugly like me / I can see through you / see to the real you
  • Part of "Open Your Heart" says "You [Eggman] and I [Sonic] are the same in a way that we have our own styles that we won't change".
  • Country Music singer Miranda Lambert's song "Only Prettier" uses this trope. The song is told in the point of view of a Cool Loser talking to the Alpha Bitch: We might think a little differently/ But we got a lot in common you will see/We're just like you/Only prettier
  • "Minstrel In The Gallery" by Jethro Tull has the titular minstrel critiquing on the people in his audience only to encounter this trope: The minstrel in the gallery / looked down on the rabbit-run / and he threw away his looking glass / saw his face in everyone
  • Linkin Park also provides what COULD be considered a protagonist-to-"antagonist" version of this trope in "Numb":

"And I know - I may end up failing too... / But I know... / That you were just like me with someone disappointed in you!"

  • Collin Raye's "Not That Different" explores the similarities between two lovers after the woman in the relationship complains that they're too different.
  • Ronnie Dunn, formerly of Brooks and Dunn, released a solo single titled "Bleed Red". The song is similar in storyline to the Collin Raye song above.
  • Vocaloid's Daughter of Revenge has Meiko disposing the evil princess who executed anyone who dared speak against her, but after figuring the Twin Switch with the princess's execution, she decides to continue the execution, essentially sentencing a comparatively innocent person to death, just so that the princess could feel the pain of losing everything she ever loved. She explicitly states that "even if I am called a heroine, I, too, am a Daughter of Evil".
  • The Blake Shelton-Trace Adkins duet "Hillbilly Bone" and Brantley Gilbert's "Country Must Be Country Wide" both have similar themes: namely, it breaks down the "us vs. them" mindset sometimes present in country music fanbases, and states that Southerners and the rest of the country are not so different.
  • This was the point behind Billy Joel's single "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me". He was criticizing the music industry and the press for their praise of recent (at the time) styles like New Age by claiming they were little more than rehashes of older trends.
  • In the Voltaire song "When You're Dead", the protagonist attempts to appeal to the local mean old man, citing their similar taste in headwear, and shared love of Jonny Cash. He is rebuffed.
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